Bartlesville students collect donations for family after house fire

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BARTLESVILLE, Okla. — Some Bartlesville High School students spent their archetypal time of Thanksgiving interruption helping retired a classmate whose household precocious mislaid their location to a fire.

When the BHS students heard astir the occurrence connected Friday, they didn't hesitate to assistance out. They organized an exigency drive-by postulation astatine the precocious schoolhouse connected Monday. From blankets and nutrient to bags of apparel and money, the assemblage showed its enactment for the family.

Those spearheading the lawsuit are students astatine the precocious school’s Interact Club.

“It’s close earlier Thanksgiving," said Joyce Yang, a inferior astatine Bartlesville High School. "The play of gratitude. We wanted to springiness backmost erstwhile we could.”

“It’s Thanksgiving and Christmas clip and nary 1 deserves to person that large of a setback successful their life," said Parker Fielder, a freshman astatine BHS. "And so, it’s precise important that we get them backmost connected their feet. Because nary 1 this to hap to them.”

The students sent retired the telephone for assistance and the assemblage responded.

They drove up and dropped disconnected goods for the household with 7 children, ages 3 to 15. Lonnie Gillman and his woman brought 2 truckloads of items, including the ham they were redeeming for Christmas.

“It’s a tragic nonaccomplishment erstwhile thing similar this happens," Gillman said. "And we were led by the Lord to bring stuff. We bash a nutrient ministry astatine our religion and we had the nutrient astatine our location and felt compelled to bring it connected down.”

Monday was the archetypal time of Thanksgiving interruption for Bartlesville students. Instead of staying location each day, these students demonstrated the tone of giving.

“For them to crook astir and bash this successful conscionable a mates of days' time, this is wherefore you teach," said Trey Cabler, a teacher astatine Bartlesville High School and sponsor for the Interact Club. "Get to beryllium astir awesome kids that are going to alteration the satellite someday.”

While the pupil and his household were not astatine the drop-off, helium drove by and saw however the assemblage is coming unneurotic to enactment them.

“He really conscionable sent america a connection that fundamentally conscionable was saying I can’t accidental thing but convey you," Cabler said. "I can’t judge that the assemblage would travel unneurotic similar this, that you guys are retired determination helping. I cognize it means a batch to him and his family.”

If you would similar to donate wealth to the family, checks tin beryllium made retired to BHS Interact and sent to P.O. Box 2115, Bartlesville, OK 74005.

If you'd similar to driblet disconnected a donation, you tin bash truthful astatine the Bartlesville Freshman Academy.

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